ed from: Nguyen Xuan Nguyen et al. (January 2010). Study on adoption of the System of Rice Intensification in Northern provinces of Vietnam. A report by commissioned by Oxfam America. On average, each woman from an SRI Farmer Field School promotes 5-8 other farmers to adopt SRI while the rate is only 1-3 for male graduates. Top: FFS graduates in Dông Trù village, Hanoi province, undertake SRI t...

Abstract. Anggraeni A, Yuniati R, Silalahi M, Lestari Jumari. 2023. Cultivation of underutilized fruit trees by indigenous people in Urug Village, West Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 24: 454-466. Underutilized Fruit Trees (UFTs) are a group with high potential but underutilized. Some has been identified this village was hit natural disaster, i.e., flood and landslide early 2020 that damaged the...

BACKGROUND Studies into the costs of syndromic surveillance systems are rare, especially for estimating the direct costs involved in implementing and maintaining these systems. An Integrated Surveillance System in rural China (ISSC project), with the aim of providing an early warning system for outbreaks, was implemented; village clinics were the main surveillance units. Village doctors express...

Introduction Primary health care approach is aimed at community participation in understanding the health needs of the community. To address the community participation in institutionalized health services in India, Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNC) werer formed at village level under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). About 421,892 VHSNCs have been constituted a...

Certain linguistic groups in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea are unique in that there is no cultural role for a traditional birth attendant and, therefore, women deliver alone unattended. A programme to train village women as midwives was begun at Nipa Health Centre im 1981 and later expanded to a province-wide scope in 1986. Thirty-two Angal Heneng village midwives were trained duri...

The external granular layer (EGL) of the cerebellum thickens, thins and disappears in its developmental process. We examined the thickness of the EGL, both intralobule differences and interlobule differences, in the whole midline sections of mouse cerebella for the entire postnatal period up to disappearance. The thinnest site in each lobule was located at the outer apex throughout the observat...

We describe social, economic, and environmental impacts of a demonstration rural energy project in northeast China. Our ethnographic approach illuminates local circumstances, perspectives, priorities, and power structures that influenced and help to explain project outcomes. The project we studied is a village-scale energy project designed to use locally available corn stalks to generate househ...

The aim of the natural investigations carried out in two archaeological sites in the SE Poland was to determine their TL age (15 samples) and characterize the vegetation cover with the use of pollen analysis (10 samples) of loess and loess-like deposits sampled in the sites and their close environs. Micromorphological features of loess were examined in one of the sites. The research was carried...

As late as September 14, 2014, Liberia's Gbarpolu County had reported zero cases of Ebola virus disease (Ebola). On October 25, the Bong County Health Team, a local health department in the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW), received confirmation of Ebola in a man who had recently left Geleyansiesu, a remote village of approximately 800 residents, after his wife and daughte...

Many species of mature forest-nesting birds ("forest birds") undergo a pronounced shift in habitat use during the post-fledging period and move from their forest nesting sites into areas of early-successional vegetation. Mortality is high during this period, thus understanding the resource requirements of post-fledging birds has implications for conservation. Efforts to identify predictors of a...